On measuring the wrong thing, well.

Will Larson on what longevity in this work looks like.

Dan Luu read a thousand postmortems so you do not have to. You should still read a few.

The clearest distributed-systems writing currently being published.

Aphyr. Just read it.

Patrick McKenzie's open call. A small thing that changes networks.

Jamie Brandon on the slow process of dropping prior beliefs.

Nelson Elhage explaining the architecture as if it were a system you have to operate.

Fly's writing on tokens that you can attenuate.

The contrarian case, made well, with numbers.

Sadly dormant. The back catalogue is still some of the best operations writing on the internet.

Where I go to read about observability done with taste.

Every one of these has saved me time at least once.

Slow, careful writing on software design.

Beautiful TUIs as a productized aesthetic. A reminder that the terminal can be designed.